nVidia 7900GTX & Mac Pro

I know there's upteen threads on such issues - but please bear with me on this one!!

I'm this first to put my hands-up and admit to knowing nothing about graphics cards; be it ATI or nVidia I just don't know as throughout the course of my working life I've never needed to know! Simple!!

Well times have changed and I need to spec out a mac pro for a dual booting situaton - preferably I'd rather have the same card working across both Win as well Mac.

Now then, I've been advised that the standard 7300GT configs are a joke and the Quadro is ridiculous at a grand regardless of how good they are!

The real issue is that the Windows applications intended to be ran on this beast are optimised for nVidia and not the ATI cards that form the "middle" options as it were.

So here comes the "real" question - can a nVidia 7900GTX be successfully installed in a Mac Pro? Be it a straight switch or via a BIOS flash??

Any help and / or advise would be very much appreciated as nvidia.com leads me to even further blank conclusions!?! It means nothing to me!!!!!

The Mac Pro order has gone through with the ATI option - but I'd like to source an alternative nVidia solution in the event the applications on the Windows side take a disliking to the ATI card!!

The ATi 1900XTX is a great card and you shouldn't have any trouble in Windows with it. So you shouldn't worry about that. As for getting a 7900GTX working (i'd get a 7950GT, same speed and cheaper), I don't know of anyone who has successfully got it working under OSX. Although it should work fine in Windows. You won't be able to see the boot screen though.

Not quite You either made some people laugh, some people shake their heads, or some like me start searching the web screaming out loud to no one in particular that "the mac pro has a different vid card option now?????"

Not quite You either made some people laugh, some people shake their heads, or some like me start searching the web screaming out loud to no one in particular that "the mac pro has a different vid card option now?????"

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